From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 8 22:50:14 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C16A16A403 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 22:50:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cryx-freebsd@h3q.com) Received: from mail.h3q.com (mail.h3q.com [217.13.206.148]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C563513C471 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 22:50:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cryx-freebsd@h3q.com) Received: (qmail 69649 invoked from network); 8 Mar 2007 22:50:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.23.150?) (smtpsend@85.179.43.128) by mail.h3q.com with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 8 Mar 2007 22:50:12 -0000 Message-ID: <45F09322.5010703@h3q.com> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 23:50:10 +0100 From: Philipp Wuensche User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Macintosh/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Messier References: <0E290C75-2066-4E59-A2D4-7FBF3A66981B@messier.com> In-Reply-To: <0E290C75-2066-4E59-A2D4-7FBF3A66981B@messier.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: remote install of 6.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 22:50:14 -0000 Mark Messier wrote: > I have a remote machine running 4.8-p21. The system has two disks in > it, but only one is used on a daily basis (the other is filled via dd > every now and then). > > I want to get this remote machine running 6.2, so I figured I'ld > install the new OS on the second disk, then boot off the second disk, > leaving the original first disk with all the user data on it (plus as > a way to back out). > > When I try to use /stand/sysinstall for this it seg-faults > early in the installation, but after the "Commit" step. You could try to mount a 6.2 iso-file and use the sysinstall from there, if that does not work due to library dependencies you could partition the disk by hand using fdisk and disklabel (or do that with the 4.8 sysinstall). After mounting the new disk to /mnt etc. you can extract the kernel and userland using the install.sh script you will find at the set directories in ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.2-RELEASE/. I think you only need base and a kernel. Only drawback is you will not be able to use UFS2 I guess, because the 4.8 newfs doesn't know about that. But maybe someone has a solution to that. You could also use qemu to prepare a freebsd6 system and use dd to write it onto the second disk. greetings, philipp